What did Roseanne Barr say about Valerie Jarrett? Cancellation explored as comedian calls out Hollywood’s double standards
Samuel Coleman
Published Jan 15, 2026
Entertainer and comic Roseanne Barr as of late gotten down on Hollywood for what she named the “s*xist twofold norm of drop culture.”
In another meeting with the Los Angeles Times, Barr focused on ABC terminating her from her own sitcom reboot Roseanne and rebranding the show The Conners following the Valerie Jarrett tweet debate:
“It was a witch-consuming. They denied me the option to apologize. Wow, they just loathed me so seriously. I had never realized that they loathed me like that. They disdain me since I have ability, since I have an assessment. Despite the fact that ‘Roseanne’ became [ABC’s] No. 1 show, they’d prefer not to have a No. 1 show.”
Barr said that her terminating caused it to seem like the business believed her should end her own life:
“At the point when they killed my personality off, that was a message to me – knowing that I’m deranged or have psychological well-being issues – that they believed me should end it all.”
She likewise called attention to how individual professional comics Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K. kept on having prospering vocations, notwithstanding being “dropped” by people in general:
“They didn’t do it to any other person in Hollywood, in spite of the fact that they generally [mention] Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K.”
Roseanne Barr proceeded:
“Indeed, Louis C.K. lost everything, except he committed a real [offense]. What’s more, Dave Chappelle was safeguarded by Netflix. I’m the main individual who’s lost everything, whose all consuming purpose was taken, taken by individuals who I thought cherished me.” She likewise referenced that nobody in Hollywood has guarded her openly with the exception of Mo’Nique:
“There was quiet. There was nobody in Hollywood truly guarding me freely, with the exception of Mo’Nique, who is a fearless, close, dear companion.”
While Chappelle proceeded to visit and work with Netflix in spite of being generally censured for his remarks against the transsexual local area, Louis C.K. proceeded with the self-circulation of his satire specials after FX dropped his series Louie after he conceded to pleasuring himself before female associates.
The two men additionally got Grammy Grants for their work following their particular outrages. Be that as it may, Roseanne Barr was booted from her show Roseanne after she offered a bigoted remark against White House consultant Valerie Jarrett in 2018.
Barr is presently driving the stand-up extraordinary Roseanne Barr: Drop This! on Fox Country and said that the organization has permitted her to be the “absolute most hostile” in her stand-up.
Back in 2018, Roseanne Barr ended up in the center of a discussion in the wake of offering racially improper remarks about then-White House guide Valerie Jarrett.
In a now-erased tweet, Barr composed that Jarrett seemed to be “the Muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Primates had a child.” The tweet started prompt reaction via online entertainment and prompted Barr being terminated from her show Roseanne.
ABC Amusement President, Channing Dungey, likewise denounced the tweet, saying it was, “loathsome, disgusting, and conflicting with our qualities.” Barr later shielded herself, saying she didn’t understand Jarrett was African-American and made the tweet under the impact of Ambien.
Barr later posted a video on her YouTube channel to address the debate. Notwithstanding, she experienced harsh criticism by and by after she was heard hollering, “I thought the bitch was white!” toward the start of the clasp.
The humorist likewise released a statement of regret to Valerie Jarrett and “every one of the Americans” for “poking a terrible fun at her legislative issues and her looks.” Barr conceded that her “joke was off color” and she “ought to have known better.”